What happens to the DNA in the cells of food we eat (cooked and raw both).

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I’m talking about both plants and animals based foods

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Great question! Biochemist here. Some of it is actually taken up by the genome and incorporated in to you. Most is digested in to chyme which contains the all the building blocks for life and is taken up in the small intestimes and made in to you. Organisms take up exogenous DNA and RNA ALL THE TIME. This is the basis for the mRNA and DNA based vaccines.